Nevertheless as a real MUD client offers much more we recommend to
download a MUD client (see also
our list of MUD clients):

Unix-like systems:

If you are using a Unix-like system it is very easy:

For your first steps in Nemesis open a Shell, an XTerm or what
ever and type 'telnet mud.nemesis.de 2000'.
But you won't have neither "command-line-editing" nor
"command history" - see
below "About MUD clients".
Raw 'telnet' is not really state-of-the-art ;-)

Microsoft Windows:

On Windows you have 3 options (to be honest there are 2):

If you have PuTTY installed (or you would like to - see
Download), it is super easy:
Configure it to use 'telnet' to connect to mud.nemesis.de port
2000.
But again you won't have neither "command-line-editing" nor
"command history" - see
below "About MUD clients".

Or fight the MS 'telnet' client with 'set localecho' and 'set crlf'
AFTER (most of the time) you logged in Nemesis.
Unfortunately, it looks like the good old standards
of telnet are too old for MS :-( Those standards would solve those
"problems" automatically. But they are older than what MS
"knows" about the Internet.

Smartphones & tablet computers:

You can also try to use a simple telnet client if it supports linemode.
This means that your commands must be sent to Nemesis when you type
<ENTER>/<SEND> and not character per character separately.
But not all telnet clients for smartphones support this!
And not having the possibility to correct what you have mistyped before - well -
this is really hard - real "retro hardcore" on a smartphone ;-)

Losing connection to Nemesis:

If you often lose your connection to Nemesis, especially while being
idle (that is to say: doing nothing), this is neither caused by nor intended by
Nemesis! But Nemesis offers a feature that might help to avoid
this: see 'help keepalive' and
'help set'. By the way it's perfectly acceptable
to stay idle in Nemesis - even for extended periods of time.

About MUD clients:

Generally speaking, a MUD client is more powerful and userfriendly than a raw
connection via telnet: At the least, "command-line-editing" and
a "command history" of previous commands to correct typos. Have a
look at our small list of MUD clients in the
Download section.

Alternatives & options:

Securely and encrypted you can connect to Nemesis via port 2020
or port 20000 using
SSL/TLS.
Unfortunately only very few MUD clients support this - see
Download. But you can use
Stunnel
(homepage) to get an encrypted
connection to Nemesis to host mud.nemesis.de and these to ports.

Alternatively to port 2000 you can also use port 2005
or port 23 (standard telnet-port), both for unencrypted connections.
E.g. try 'telnet mud.nemesis.de 2005' or
'telnet mud.nemesis.de 23' (or 'telnet mud.nemesis.de' without
port number, as port 23 should be default)
if port 2000 is blocked by a firewall/packetfilter respectively blocked by
another service like
Skinny
Client Control Protocol (SCCP, VoIP stuff by Cisco Systems).

The formerly easiest way was to enter the telnet URL in a browser, but browser
manufacturers no longer support the format
telnet://mud.nemesis.de:2000/ :-(